3165: Is Sitting Really the New Smoking by Dr. Jenny Brockis on The Hidden Risks of a Sedentary Life

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🗓️ 25 October 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3165: Dr. Jenny Brockis explores how prolonged sitting drastically affects physical and mental wellbeing, equating its risks to smoking. She offers science-backed strategies to reduce sedentary behavior, empowering listeners to improve focus, productivity, and long-term health through simple, active habits. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.drjennybrockis.com/2014/10/16/is-sitting-really-the-new-smoking/ Quotes to ponder: "Sitting is not dangerous per se, it’s the amount of sitting we do that’s the issue." "Prolonged sitting is associated with a greater risk of heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, obesity, certain types of cancer, and even premature death." "Getting up and moving around every 30 to 45 minutes can significantly reduce the negative impact of sitting." Episode references: Sitting Time and All-Cause Mortality Risk (Archives of Internal Medicine): https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/1108810 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Health Daily.
0:02.9	Is Sitting, really the new smoking?
0:05.2	By Dr. Jenny Brockus of Dr. Jenny Brockes.com.
0:08.2	And I'm Dr. Neal, your very own personal narrator.
0:11.8	Hey there, happy Saturday, and welcome back to another weekend edition of Optimal Health Daily.
0:16.4	This is where I read to you from some of the best health and fitness blogs on the web,
0:20.4	kind of like an
0:21.1	ongoing audiobook, and always with a bit of my commentary at the end. And with that, let's get right
0:26.7	to today's post as we optimize your life. Is Sitting Really the New Smoking? By Dr. Jenny
0:36.6	Brockus of Dr. Jenny Brockes.com
0:39.0	Sitting disease.
0:41.9	There's a lot of it about.
0:43.9	It seems that sitting disease just kind of snuck up on us
0:47.3	when we weren't looking,
0:48.6	and now we face the horrible realization that
0:50.9	not only are we shortening our lives with this practice,
0:55.0	it's also dumbing us down. Business writer, Neelifer Merchant, in a TED conference in 2013, talked about how she
1:01.6	sees sitting as the new smoking. The word around town is that sitting is bad, and so there has
1:07.9	been a frenzy of activity as workplaces install, sometimes quite expensive,
1:13.0	standing desks, step counters, and encourage stand-up or walking meetings.
1:18.3	Having moved away from general practice land where I had been pretty active throughout my
1:22.5	working days, it wasn't until I found myself seeking relief with physiotherapy and remedial massage recently
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